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CPMR describes DG competition's most recent proposals “scandalous”

Brussels, 02/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - Why not leave your home areas and move to Europe's major capitals in the centre of Europe or to more prosperous regions? According to the Conference of the Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR), this invitation to small and medium-sized enterprises was what Directorate General Competition (of the European Commission) said for the main part, in its contribution on revision of regional state aid (see interview with Commissioner Neelie Kroes: EUROPE 27...

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(EU) EU/REGIONAL/LISBON STRATEGY: Hubner says it would be “a political mistake to create a new division in Europe between a West that gives and an East that receives”
(EU) EU/REGIONAL ADI/STATE AID: CPMR describes DG competition's most recent proposals “scandalous”
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